PLAN OF THE WORK.

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stance, the nature and advantages of Agricultural Societies ,&c.

19. The whole Inquiry to conclude, with a general view ofthe Means of Improvement, and the measures calculated forthat purpose.

Such is the nature of the plan, according to which Reportshave been made to the Board of Agriculture, regarding everycounty in Great Britain , amounting to seventy-five in all,and the substance of which, in so far as relates to Scotland ,it is proposed shall be contained in this General Report, ar-ranged in a similar manner.

To prevent the work from swelling to a size that might beobjected to, compression has been studied, as far as wasthought consistent with perspicuity; and all matters of mi-nute detail, that could not properly be placed in the body ofthe work, are inserted in Appendixes .

On the whole, every endeavour has been made, to renderthe work as perfect as could be expected, in a new attempt ofa nature so peculiarly extensive and laborious; and withsuch a basis as the information here given, it is to be hoped,that useful knowledge will be rapidly diffused, and that bythe union of public encouragement, and private exertion,this part of the united kingdom, will be raised to an unexam-pled degree of happiness and prosperity.